A new report says that the term now favoured political shorthand – is employed for divisive purposes by the left and the right. So does it hold a use,or does it simply turn poorer Britons into ‘moon specimens’?At my primary and secondary schools in the 1980s and early 90s, we were all working course. We lived together on a peripheral estate outside Birmingham; our parents did routine jobs or were out of work; and, or at 16,we were pretty much all expected to leave or go “to the tech” to conclude childcare or mechanics. These experiences and assumptions were not that different whether we were white, black or brown, and because the fact of being working course in a working-course area gave us a sense that our destinies were largely shared. Related: ‘White working course’: the label that seeks to divide and rule | Faiza Sheheen The vogue is to record working-course people as 'the left behind'Labour hoped that repeating 'We're all middle course now' would originate course wither awayContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com